It highlighted problems including poor performance in primary schools and inadequate arrangements for supporting "challenging schools".
And that's going to be, probably, his toughest challenge, and that is to turn around the performance of the schools in that city.
Florida reveals the next stage: linking vouchers to the performance of public schools in order to shake up the public-school system throughout the state.
Bob Carr, the premier of New South Wales, says that, as a matter of policy, the performance of public schools in his state is not published.
While I would recommend revisions to No Child Left Behind legislation that would encourage the benefits of performance pay, increase support for struggling schools and motivate high performance in addition to ensuring baseline requirements, I am convinced that the firm accountability measures that No Child Left Behind introduced must be preserved.
"The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking, " the report says.
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The results should nonetheless give students a good sense of the relative performance of the different schools in delivering results.
For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.
The inspectorate identified weaknesses in performance management and the role played by elected councillors in Anglesey's schools.
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The poor performance of many white working class boys in schools is something that has been highlighted in the past, particularly by England's schools watchdog Ofsted.
It pointed out that two school districts in Brooklyn are experimenting with a performance-related pay pogramme, which gives rewards to teachers and principals in schools where test scores improve.
"Over the past fourteen months, we have consulted widely and the manifesto is based on what we have learned from the 252 schools in our Learning and Performance Network and the many inspirational teachers introducing Shakespeare to young people, " Jacqui O'Hanlon from the RSC said.
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The performance metrics used to judge schools today are also problematic in that they are overly narrow.
With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--SAT scores, SAT participation rates and graduation rates.
With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT, depending on which is more common in the state), exam participation rates and graduation rates.
But they are regarded as "high stakes" primarily because schools' average results are published in government performance tables - loathed by teachers.
The report, which will go before the Children's Services Scrutiny Commission on Monday, said performance needed to match the "outstanding" surroundings in most secondary schools.
Inspectors said the performance of the school was "declining" in comparison to other schools, and teaching in some areas was also criticised in the Estyn report.
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Mr Lieberman's bill sounds many of the same notes as Mr Bush's, consolidating the 50 current federal programmes into five broad categories, offering states far more flexibility in how they spend their money in return for hitting broad performance targets and including penalties for schools that fail to spend their money wisely (such as being turned into charter schools).
Performance-based pay drives a culture of success with educators in charter schools, creating excellence among educators.
Winners in this rating system are counties whose schools deliver high performance at low cost.
Ministers had pointed to the relatively higher improvement in results in specialist schools when they published last year's school performance tables.
Exams produce nice clear results, which can give useful clues about the performance of pupils, schools, teachers, methods and every other variable in the system.
Pupils at schools where the arts were integrated into the curriculum showed stronger performance in maths, English, critical thinking and verbal skills, he added.
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Mr Cookson said in most cases it was up to schools to agree their own performance management policy, although these specialist teachers were employed directly through the council.
Hutching is particularly interested in research looking at the impact of inactivity on academic performance, and is trying to pass legislation to require more physical activity in Utah schools.
Of Camden's 26 schools, 23 fall in the bottom 5% statewide in performance measures, and less than half of its students graduate high school in four years, according to the state.
She's seen the financial problems, schools that repeatedly failed to meet performance standards, and the state stepping in.
The leaders of school inspection body Ofsted have met in York to discuss the poor performance of some of the region's secondary schools.
In 2010, the school ranked first in its county in student performance in math and reading and ranked among the top 10 percent of all Arizona charter schools.
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